UPDATE: Two more clips added, clearly related to each other, and to the other clips -- can you figure out how they're related?
STAGE 1 -- a grand old theme, which comes to us stated in three distinctly different ways:
Vienna Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik, cond. Decca, recorded September 1957
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, cond. Philips, recorded April 1977
Staatskapelle Dresden, Kurt Sanderling, cond. Eurodisc, recorded Nov. 1971
STAGE 2 -- Talk about a transformation! Again, we hear it at three slightly but noticeably different paces:
Berlin Radio Symphony, Heinz Rögner, cond. Berlin Classics, recorded 1983
Bavarian Radio Symphony, Rafael Kubelik, cond. DG, recorded May 1967
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, cond. Philips, recorded April 1993
STAGE 3 -- This one's a doozy, which'll really come into its own in Part 2 of the post:
Bavarian Radio Symphony, Rafael Kubelik, cond. DG, recorded May 1967
Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, cond. DG, recorded live, April 1972
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, cond. Live performance, Nov. 1974
by Ken
That's right, what's coming up is a two-part post, whose two parts (and I've never attempted this) are going to be posted at the same time and be mutually accessible, meaning that you can, if you wish, jump back and forth between them. I apologize for, but am not going to further comment on here, my long blog silence. (There'll be a few words in Part 1 of the post. But I can't change what is, or was. What is, or was, is -- or was.
